Rebuilding the Desktop in Snow leopard.

[hugodrax]

An old former Mac user told me I should rebuild the desktop once a month. How do you do this?

 

[drlunanerd]

An old former Mac user told me I should rebuild the desktop once a month. How do you do this?

Their advice is rather out of date. You can't "rebuild the desktop" on Mac OS X. That only applied to Mac OS 9 and older, 10 years ago

 

[Blue Velvet]

As mentioned, rebuilding the desktop was a process for OS9 and earlier.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2344

Running Snow Leopard on an Intel Mac: don't worry about it.